My name is EposVox, and this is the top 10 Ubuntu desktop apps for the average user that
you should be using moving from 2016 to 2017.
I have a few other app compilations coming up, as far as recommended apps that I recommend
for the Ubuntu or Linux desktop environments.
But these are my top 10 that I recommend, finishing off 2016.
Let's jump right in.
These are in no particular order, but we're going to start with BleachBit.
BleachBit is a system cleaner that's basically like CCleaner, if you've ever used that on
Windows.
But for Linux, it can clear out your cache files.
It can clear out temporary files or even completely revoke all of your browser settings and profiles
if you want or if you click the wrong button.
You have to be careful what you're working with.
And you get different sets of options, depending on whether you're running as the normal user
or running it as root or administrator, as it will allow you to clear out some more higher-level
system stuff that you otherwise wouldn't be able to mess with if you run it as superuser.
You do have to be careful not to delete stuff you're not supposed to, because again, you
will clear out some stuff permanently and there's no way to get it back.
But it's a great little tool.
In my first time using, I cleared out like 30 gigs or something.
It was pretty cool.
NeoFetch is number 2.
NeoFetch is a tool that if you add it to your bashrc file to automatically start up whenever
you open a terminal emulator, it gives you a cool little graphical representation of
your system information, which can be very handy.
It can tell you system uptime, what operating system you're running, how much memory you
have, your computer specs in general, and a little color chart if you need to calibrate
your monitor, as well as the logo of the distribution that you're using.
It's really, really cool.
screenFetch is the one that's usually recommended, but I have a lot of issues with screenFetch,
as far as like getting it to run properly on some machines, especially virtual machines.
Whereas NeoFetch runs a lot easier for me, and it gives you the cool little color bar.
It just seems to work a lot better for me.
I generally recommend that.
VLC.
VLC is probably included with your distribution, depending on which one you're using.
But a lot of them nowadays, especially ones like elementary OS and things like that, are
actually including their own video player instead, but I highly recommend you get VLC.
VLC is a fantastic media player that will play just about anything.
It'll also let you stream internet streams, convert video format, rip a DVD.
It will let you do a ton, more than I could ever possibly cover within this one little
program, unless it's a pretty baller media player in the first place.
Next up we have Shutter.
Shutter is the screenshot tool that I use on Linux.
It works pretty freakin' well.
It allows you to take really cool, you know, really high-quality screenshots.
You can annotate them.
It's kind of like the LightShot program that I've recommended for Windows, only it runs
on Linux.
It has a lot of really cool tools.
You can customize where it saves pictures to or automatically upload them, things like
that.
And it just runs in the system tray and is really easy to access.
Caffeine is an interesting tool.
It allows you--for whatever reason, and this is a minor nitpick thing about the Linux desktop
environment, but it's just not quite as polished as some of the proprietary operating systems
yet.
One of the issues with that is a lot of the time, my screen will turn off or my machine
will go to sleep if I'm watching a video.
Now, on Windows and Mac, this doesn't happen.
They know not to do that.
But the settings aren't quite there for Linux.
So Caffeine has a system tray indicator that you can just click on to disable your system
from going to sleep or turning the screen off, specifically when you are watching media.
And when you know you're pulling up a video, click on it, and your screen will stay on,
which for me has been very important in order to use, because I keep watching YouTube videos
and then my screen goes off and the video stops.
This helps fix that.
Unity Tweak Tool is a must if you're using the Ubuntu desktop.
The newer Unity controls don't give you customization of every little thing.
Honestly, what drives me the most nuts about more recent Ubuntu releases is used to, with
the Gnome desktop, you had so much customization of literally everything.
And with the Unity environment, they hide a lot of features.
Not necessarily on purpose, but they just don't make them as accessible.
You can still do it from the terminal, but if you want GUI, Unity Tweak Tool gives you
a ton more customization of your Ubuntu desktop, and I highly, highly recommend it.
Actually, I have a full tutorial on customizing your Ubuntu desktop as of 16.04 in the YouTube
card icon above or description down below.
If you're looking for a messenger app, Franz messenger--Franz, you know, like how people
say "friends."
Franz messenger allows you to communicate with Skype, Telegram, WhatsApp, a lot of different
messaging platforms all at once, all within this nice, little messenger program.
And it runs Windows and Mac and Linux.
It's pretty cool.
It reminds of what Pidgin used to be.
Pidgin used to be the messenger that we all used when we had multiple accounts.
If we wanted to manage AIM, Hotmail.
I think Hotmail had a messenger.
Windows Live Messenger, that's what it was.
Skype, Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, all of those at once.
Pidgin was the program to use.
But standard instant messaging somehow died off, even though we use the exact same thing
still.
It died off, and so I've been waiting for a program to show up like it.
Franz messenger seems to be that program.
I've got two image editing programs here.
One is GIMP, of course.
Most people have probably heard of GIMP at this point.
If you don't know what it is, it's basically like an open source Photoshop.
The way the program works does technically work a little bit differently than Photoshop.
There is some different learning curves to adjust to, but it is a very, very powerful
image editor and design program that can do anything you need to probably for standard
design, working on YouTube thumbnails, things like that.
It's free, open source, runs on pretty much every operating system.
It's great.
The other one is darktable, which if you look at the name, it's basically the opposite of
Adobe's Lightroom.
And that's what it is.
It's an open source Lightroom-esque program to manage your photos, edit them up.
It does a lot of cool photo editing and manipulation tools.
And it allows you to mess with the RAW files as well.
It's highly recommended by those who are photographers looking to move to an open source environment,
and it's a lot of fun to play with.
Lastly, we have Kdenlive, which is a nonlinear video editor for the Linux platform.
And it is pretty cool.
The timeline format reminds you of your standard NLE, Vegas, Premiere, Avid a little bit, Avid.
It's fairly straightforward to learn, and it works pretty well.
I was quite surprised.
There is of course OpenShot and Lightworks and things like that, but Kdenlive seems to
be the like, baseline recommended program to really learn to edit videos.
So that is one that I recommend as well.
So that's it!
2016 is over!
We're going to have a great year for Linux, I feel, in 2017, especially with all the crazy
stuff that's been going on surrounding Windows.
A lot of people aren't happy with the MacBook Pro's and things like that.
So this is the time to get into Linux.
I have a ton of content planned.
These are my top 10 Ubuntu desktop apps that I highly recommend.
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